FOR THE WEEK OF:
August 23-29, 2000

• Arson suspected in Timmerman fire
  A brush fire that consumed 300 acres of grass and sagebrush near Timmerman junction Tuesday afternoon and evening is believed to have been the work of an arsonist.
  

• Fires hit closer to home
  Sawtooth Valley could be in danger from Trail Creek fire
  

• 'Cowboy cops' ride herd on commuters
  A Chevy Suburban goes perpendicular
  

• P&Z approves unlit St. Luke's cross
  Altered sign package
  

• Price of growth
  What do you do with thousands of cubic yards of dirt and rock?
  

• Elkhorn residents defeat Johns-Manville rezone proposal
  Developers meet overwhelming opposition
  

• Stanley's crisis passes—but not without a prayer
  First, they prayed. Then, they had a blowout party at a local hangout.
  

• Finding truth with words
  A correspondance with Anna Quindlen

• The Sun Valley Film Festival
  A new festival debuts in October

• Writers refuge
  The Sun Valley Writers' Conference
  

• Signs abuse valley aesthetics
  One can almost visualize last week's Blaine County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting as an episode out of Lewis Carroll's fantasyland children's classic, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" — a nonsensical world of silliness gone crazy.
  

• Needed: Health attack
  More than their political ambitions bind together defeated Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, GOP vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan.
  

• Idaho's at war as fires rage through the state
  The gripping battle to stop fires advancing through Idaho's picturesque forest has all the metaphors of a war. Commentary by Pat Murphy

• Adbusters' cultural jamming movement aims at altering our lifestyles
  A culture that allows its major economic entities to pay inordinate amounts of money to people to write about shivering with business excitement over a global campaign to sell packaged and canned soup is in dire need of a revolution. Commentary by Dick Dorworth

• Thompson belts one long and straight
  24th tournament nears $500,000 to fight leukemia
  

• People and Places
  

• Public Notice Summary
  

The Idaho Mountain Express is distributed free to residents and guests throughout the Sun Valley resort areas. Subscribers to the Idaho Mountain Express will read these and other stories  in this weeks' issue:

• A Baldy blaze?

• Fire season road closures

• Educators prepare students for life in the 21st century

• Resort report

• Simpson calls a casual meeting for serious issues

• Woman cited for Heritage museum theft

• Man survives rollover on highway

• St. Luke's to begin highway work

• City hall deals with land dispute

• Greenhorn bridge construction to begin this fall

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